when did you apply/ get oa

[meager bison]

title

[charred zealot]

theres no oa, its direct final

@low slate when did you get the interview invite for final?

[cerulean lichen]

i need ur magic touch bro

[tight pendant]

what location is this for

plz

[low slate]

Sorry didn't mean to ghost

Legit just now

Idt it says the location

[charred zealot]

fr? pretty weird of them to send interview invites on a sunday

[low slate]

yea I was caught off guard

[tiny elm]

Prev exp?

[low slate]

2x insurance but i have some exp with Azure/msft services so idrk if that helped

No

It's Redmond sorry @tight pendant

[inland portal]

congrats

[wraith bluff]

ez dub

[cunning pewter]

Is Microsoft final easy?

[wraith bluff]

yes but rng dependent. friend got string manip and bfs last cycle

easy + med

[low slate]

any suggestions on what to study

[cunning pewter]

Rng?

[wraith bluff]

interview dependent from what i've heard

[charred zealot]

go though the tagged problems on LC, msft usually only asks easy/med

good luck

[low slate]

thank you

can i dm?

[cunning pewter]

I’ve got my final tomorrow so I can tell you how it goes

Ping me after like 5 pm

[low slate]

bet thanks man

[cunning pewter]

From what most of the people I’ve spoken to (prev Microsoft interns) they said easy medium question, the biggest thing they care about it understanding how you think, so treat it more like teaching them how to solve the problem then just solving it ,

[low slate]

got it

ru going thru the tagged?

or did u go thru the tagged

[meager bison]

Recruiter initials?

[low slate]

theres no rec

attatched

[cunning pewter]

Yeah I am

[low slate]

gotcha

[onyx hemlock]

@low slate 2 rounds, each interview will prob do a coding question + behavioural

I’d focus on being comfortable with all popular DS&A topics such as linked lists; strings, arrays, trees, sorting algorithms, etc. DP graphs are unlikely then again better safe than sorry if you have the time.

Learn the Microsoft values, and connect them to ur resume/ past experiences.

Have stories that map to each value is a tip

I wouldn’t focus on tagged imo since people from ur org volunteer to interview interns and they decide questions, so it’s really just org dependent and who is doing interviews that year.

Hope that helps best of luck, if you got any more questions feel free to dm me ( just ping when you dm cuz I’ll prob forget to check otherwise).

[cunning pewter]

Like a while back

End of August I think

[tribal tartan]

no clue

gonna find out otmorrow

[hot thistle]

@low slate told you something would work out 🙏🏽

[low slate]

u right

i just needa hit one

[hot thistle]

You won’t get headcounted for atlassian LMAO

But LinkedIn is easily best one but to rate is rough

[low slate]

do yk how the final is

[cunning pewter]

Messages from past interns :

i did the final last year

a pretty good (fun) question they asked me was to find the connection distance from two people

think about it a little more because the linkedin 1st, 2nd, or 3rd friends connections are just one big graph DSA they have implemented on their codebase which was nice to learn from an engineer

From soomeone else

Also I’ve seen like tree/ graph problems bent given

which isn’t too bad

Here’s another one

The OA was 1 lc med, 1 lc hard

Next was a 20 min phone screen, they asked like why linkedin, what i look for in a internship, on campus involvment. At the end of the call they scheduled my final rd

Final rd was 1 45 min behavioral and 1 45 min technical, technical was 1 easy tree problem and 1 med set/hashmap prob

OA was also lc med, lc hard... Strings I think

1 hr behavioral, 1 hr technical, technical was an easy(?) HashMap problem

Hope this helps

@low slate

@tribal tartan

[low slate]

damn so it looks hella random

[cunning pewter]

You can prob try tagged on leetcode?

🫡🫡

Thanks

Sure

[low slate]

yea a prev intern sent me a list that he said was very commonly asked from the tagged but there weren't as many graph problems

Mainly meds and some hards

But I hear like a lot of different things from everyone I ask about the final so idek what to believe

[cunning pewter]

Hmm okay I’ll have to check out tagged

[low slate]

Check dm I'll show u what I got sent

[cunning pewter]

Got one of the tagged problems

Merge intervals

1 45 mins

[inland portal]

thats it?

45 min interview

with 1 question?

[charred zealot]

https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-intervals/description/ this?

[cunning pewter]

Yeah

[charred zealot]

damn

[cunning pewter]

Not there were 2 other small ones

But those were code analysis

[inland portal]

so

[cunning pewter]

And they were pretty easy

[inland portal]

overall

very easy

wow

msft is free

[charred zealot]

yea

just have to pass resume screen / get picked by rng

[inland portal]

yup

im still

in lingo

limbo*

[inland portal]

@cunning pewter how many interviewers interviewed you? just one?

[cunning pewter]

2

[cunning pewter]

1 for technical 1 for behavioural

[inland portal]

Were the behavioral questions just your generic tell me about yourself, why microsoft, biggest strength, etc?

Also, were the interviewers generally pretty chill during the interview?

[cunning pewter]

Technical one seemed like he was in a rush

But the behavioural one was pretty chill

It was mostly resume grilling

She seemed particularly interested in one of my past experiences

[inland portal]

Thank you for the info, I appreciate it. I have my final tomorrow and freaking out right now.

[cunning pewter]

Good luck 🫡🫡

[inland portal]

You get any Microsoft Portal changes yet?

[cunning pewter]

Yeah 😔I got rejected

[inland portal]

Damn I’m sorry, what do you think went wrong? Did you complete both technical questions?

[low slate]

how'd ur final go?

[inland portal]

I believe it went really well, I personally think it did but you never know. I answered both technical questions completely and behavioral questions were straight forward.

[low slate]

can I dm